CSI: NY has decided to tackle 9/11 when it returns for its season 8 premiere. With the tenth anniversary approaching this year, the show wanted to do a tribute that producer Zachary Reite told TV Guide is "simple and respectful, and I think we accomplished that."
At the end of the seventh season, Mac (Gary Sinise) vowed to take time off from the lab. When the show opens, Mac will be working with his friend, retired fire chief Joe Vincent. Robert Forster will be making a guest appearance as Joe Vincent and the two characters will be working on a memorial project together, since Joe lost his son on 9/11, while Mac lost his wife.
Jaime Ray Newman will be making a guest appearance as Mac's deceased wife, Claire Taylor. The episode will take place in the present, where Mac is unveiling the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, and in flashbacks, where each member of the team recalls their own moments from 9/11. We'll see flashbacks of Mac saying goodbye to his wife as she left for work and then again when he arrived at the World Trade Center after the attacks.
We'll also see Det. Danny Messer and Det. Don Flack meeting for the first time at the site of the World Trade Center on 9/11.
To view promo photos for the season 8 premiere of CSI: NY, click on the arrows above. The episode will air on Friday, September 23.
On the 10th anniversary of 9-11, Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) comes to terms with the events of that day during a dedication at the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance, on the eighth season premiere of "CSI: NY," Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. The show, in its eighth season, shot at the Wall on Monday, August 15. Photo: David M. Russell/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Sgt. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo) embraces his wife, Lindsay Messer (Anna Belknap), while Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) and Det. Jo Danville (Sela Ward) look on at the memorial/dedication at the Brooklyn Wall of remembrance during the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Det Don Flack (Eddie Cahill) and Det. Jo Danville (Sela Ward) at the memorial/dedication at the Brooklyn Wall of remembrance during the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) embraces Sheldon Hawkes (Hill Harper) at the memorial/dedication at the Brooklyn Wall of remembrance during the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- The CSI team at the memorial/dedication at the Brooklyn Wall of remembrance during the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. From left, Sgt. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo), Lindsay Messer (Anna Belknap), Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill), Det. Jo Danville (Sela Ward). Photo: Bill Inoshita/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Det. Danny Messer (Carmine Giovinazzo, left) and Det. Don Flack (Eddie Cahill, right) meet for the first time at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) arrives at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) arrives at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor and (Gary Sinise) meets with Det. Jo Danville (Sela Ward) outside a coffee shop, on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) arrives at the site of the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Claire Taylor (Jaime Ray Newman) says goodbye to her husband as she leaves for work on Sept. 11, 2001, in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- On Sept. 11, 2001, Mac and his wife, Claire Taylor (Gary Sinise and Jaime Ray Newman) ride the bus to work together, in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) remembers the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and the death of his wife, Claire, as he rides the bus to work, on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- On Sept. 11, 2001, Claire Taylor (Jaime Ray Newman) calls her husband, Mac, from the site of the World Trade Center attacks, in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Richard Cartwright/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
"Indelible" -- On Sept. 11, 2001, Mac and his wife, Claire Taylor (Gary Sinise and Jaime Ray Newman) get ready for work, in a flashback on the eighth season premiere of CSI: NY, Friday, Sept. 23 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2011 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
